Writers block is the reason Alan Wake, a renowned novelist, travels to Bright Falls, an idyllic small town until the sun sets. Things go bump in the night and Alan will have to face them if he wants to save his wife.

Alan Wake stars an uncanny protagonist, a writer who is trapped in one of his stories that he doesn’t recall writing. The story is told in a series of “episodes”, sort of like a TV show as Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen explain in this interview.